Northumerland, UK: A puffin on the Farne Islands. The National Trust will soon be starting the five yearly count of the puffins on the island to assess the state of the population - at the last count in 2003 there were over 55,500 breeding pairs

Valle de Anton, Panama: An employee of the amphibian conservation centre holds a golden frog. The golden frog is a symbol of Panama but it may be next in line in a string of several frog species that have disappeared due to a lethal fungus known as Chytrid

Guwahati city, India: Forest guards keep an eye on a pair of Indian rhinos at Pobitora wildlife sanctuary. Two more rhinos, including a calf, were killed on April 28 by organised poacher gangs at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam